It has been a real cruel infosec summer! At least the first fifteen days of August that have shown a remarkable number of cyber attacks, and an even more staggering number of compromised accounts.

Effectively the month did not start very well: 200 alleged Yahoo! accounts have been published on the Real Deal marketplace by Peace, the same hacker who had previously sold the DB dumps of MySpace and Linkedin.

But this has not been the only mega breach of this fortnight: 15 million Iranian users of Telegram have been compromised by attackers tied with the infamous state-sponsored group Rocket Kitten, 3.7 million customers of Banner Health, an Arizona-based healthcare group, have been equally compromised (unfortunately the trail of massive breaches affecting healthcare continue), and finally, hackers belonging to the Pravy Sector collective have dumped more than 150GB of data from Central Ohio Urology Group.

Other interesting events in cyber crime include the discovery of malware in 20 locations of HEI Hotels & Resorts, the chain that owns Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt, and Intercontinental hotels, the hack against Bitfinex, in which hackers made off with $65m worth of Bitcoins (£48m, €57m), creating a turmoil in the value of the crypto currency, and the wave of DDoS attacks orchestrated by the PoodleCorp collective against several video games portals such as Blizzard’s battle.net or the PlayStation Network.

And whereas the Anonymous turned their attentions mainly against Brazil, because of the Olympic Games of Rio2016, the list of cyber espionage operation is really too long to summarize, so I strongly recommend you to scroll down the whole timeline.

As usual, if you want to have an idea of how fragile our electronic identity is inside the cyberspace, have a look at the timelines of the main Cyber Attacks in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,2015 and, in a bit, 2016 (regularly updated). You may also want to have a look at the Cyber Attack Statistics that are regularly published, and follow @paulsparrows on Twitter for the latest updates.

Last but not least, feel free to submit remarkable incidents that in your opinion deserve to be included in the timelines (and charts), and if useful, you can access the timeline in Google Sheet format: